Virginia Humanities was home to an active book arts studio from 2008-2025. While it is impossible to represent the full breadth and depth of the creative works produced during this time, we have curated a few highlights below.
If you wish to continue to follow the work of the community of book artists that worked in the studio, please email info@vabookarts.org or visit https://vabookarts.org.
Book Arts Examples
NewsOur Most Recently Completed Members Project “Rivanna Reconnaissance”
River Reconnaissance is the culmination of our incredibly talented Virginia Center for the Book members over two years. Members worked together to create a beautifully bound faux scientific field journal. It was filled with fictitious accounts of what could be discovered along the banks of the Rivanna River due to climate change.
NewsLetterpress Artwork Presents ‘A Permanent Record’ of Historic Pine Grove School Attendees
Moved by the Pine Grove community’s dedication to preserving its own history, Center for the Book artist Veronica Jackson decided to create a memorial to the 14 teachers and 185 students who attended the school from 1917 to 1964. The resulting artwork, titled A Permanent Record, recognizes, and remembers the generations of Black Americans who were disenfranchised, segregated, and denied access to a quality education.
NewsSaints Alive! A Collection of Gratitude by Members of the Virginia Center for the Book
Saints Alive! is a collection of storied art to acknowledge whoever or whatever helped its contributing visual artists cope during the pandemic. Blending the sacred and the secular—inspired by European and Near Eastern iconographic symbols, Mexican ex-votos, and Peruvian retablos—this collection brings together the work of Virginia Center for the Book member artists.
NewsAmos Paul Kennedy, Jr. Residency Recap
Between March 9-26, 2019, Detroit artist Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. completed his work in the inaugural Frank Riccio Artist Residency…
News2019 Annual Member’s Project: Uncharted (Unfounded/Unmoored)
2019 Annual Member’s Project – Uncharted (Unfounded/Unmoored) (Specs Updated 10/03/2019) Milestones w/approx. dates June 20: Project Launch (Participants begin to plan their map) July 1: Participants submit their rough designs …
News2018 Annual Member’s Project: Bird Talk
Note: The Virginia Center for the Book’s 2018 Annual Members Project Bird Talk has “flown the coop” (published November 14, 2018) Limited editions of the book are available for purchase, …
NewsNicole Delgado Named as the Next Riccio Artist-in-Residence
The Virginia Center for the Book is pleased to announce the 2022 Frank Riccio Artist-in-Residence: Puerto Rican poet, book artist, and small-press publisher Nicole Delgado.
NewsQuaranta: The Spaces of Quarantine
We are revisiting & reimagining Quaranta!Participation is Open to Anyone and Everyone. What many of us once saw as a pandemic with a possible timeline has emerged as “the age …
NewsSpeaking in Faces: Virginia’s Typographical Treasures Published
About the project… Speaking In Faces, a landmark publication showcasing the VABC’s metal type, will hold print gathered in the last 18 months from the VABC’s vast holdings in traditional specimens. These …
